The highest court in the country, the Supreme court of India today (30th January) appointed former CAG Viond Rai as the head Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) along with Ramachandra Guha a noted historian, Diana Edulji a former Indian woman test team cricketer and Vikran Limaye an IDFC official.
Supreme Court declined the Center’s request to appoint a secretary of sports ministry as the member of the committee and referred to its earlier judgment debarring ministers and government servants from holding an office in BCCI.
Supreme Court named Amitabh Chaudhary, Anirudh Chaudhary of BCCI and Vikram Limaye to represent BCCI at the upcoming ICC meeting in the first week of February
On January 24, the apex court rejected all nine names, which was submitted by the BCCI counsel, but senior lawyer Kapil Sabil was granted the permission to provide suggestions for an interim panel to run Indian cricket.
During the time of the hearing Supreme Court dismissed the names that were submitted in a sealed envelope to be appointed as BCCI administrators and asserted that any person over the age of 70 will not be appointed as administrator of BCCI.
In its order from 2nd January, during which SC had removed Anurag Thakur as the president of BCCI and disqualified all the board and its state association office bearers, who failed to meet the new norms which were set by the Justice Lodha Committee
The SC had stated that cricket administrators would be allowed to hold office for a cumulative period of nine years, inclusive of the time they hold office in their respective state associations as well as the BCCI. However, as this was in contrast to that of 18 July 18 2016, which stated that the cumulative tenure would be limited to nine plus nine years - that is, nine years within the BCCI and nine in state associations - the SC last week offered further clarify and set the ineligibility clause as "an office-bearer of the BCCI for nine years or a State Association for the same period".
On 20th January, the Center moved the SC against the implementation of the Lodha Committee recommendations on behalf of the Railway Sports Promotion Board, The Services Sports Control Board and All India Universities - three sporting bodies that held full membership of the BCCI earlier, but now stand relegated to associate member status without voting rights as per the Lodha panel's "one state-one vote" recommendations.
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